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GONE WITH THE WIND - 2006

"There was a land of Publishers and Editors called the Newspaper Business... Here in this pretty world Journalism took its last bow... Here was the last ever to be seen of Reporters and their Enablers, of Anonymous Sources and of Stringers... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization Gone With the Wind..."

With apologies to Margaret Mitchell...

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[Tarpon]

Dino media dying, blame the real cause, lies, to many lies, not enough truth. The current media does Pravda proud.

[Vicomte13]

It is tough to compete with "free".

Really, the only thing that can compete with "free" is "better", but some things don't lend themselves much to "better". Then you have to dupe people by packaging.
Which works with things that people WANT to do (like buy chic water...drawn from a tap somewhere else and put in a bottle and sold dearer than gasoline).
But it doesn't work with things people don't want to do, like "I lost my puppy" ads.

[2banana]

Water is also "free" yet some people pay $2 a bottle for it - it all comes down to quality (which nearly all left wing newspapers don't have).

[keithtoo]

It's nice to see the Lefties eating their own.

[Rastus]

The only real lesson to learn from Craigslist is, itself, anathema to eBay. What makes Craigslist special is that it is, for the most part, free. And the only way to compete with Craigslist is by making any competitive service free, too, which eBay is rightly unwilling to do.

With eBay, you get buyer and seller protection to some degree. None on Craigslist. And, from just a one-time test of Craigslist just now, the search feature isn't anywhere near as user friendly. I can find items from all over the world with one search on eBay, but here I have to connect to each individual area's database and hope to find it? I might take it more seriously if it could pull listings from any market. Maybe it can and I just haven't figured it out yet.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Interesting overview of the media in 2006:

A Media Whirlwind in Review

Of course they lump in the profitable sale of Clear Channel in with the expected sale of the Times, as if they were all being done for the same reason.

[Atlas Sneezed]

The only thing I questions is how tough Craig's list is as eBay's competition.

eBay is nearly free, and has a great search engine and database that covers the nation/world. Unless there is some feature I haven't found, Craigslist is useful only for local purchases (used snowblower).

[smonk]

index for later.

[Nancee]

I don't buy it! Convince me.

Nancee

[pabianice]

Say what you will, but the MSM still managed to throw this past election to the liberals. At least they lost money while doing it.

[Tall_Texan]

This column reeks of arrogance.

He may have to find a job in the real world where *those* people work and he is terrified at the prospect.

[Old Professer]

What a scattered set of metaphors, all those eyeballs rolling dizzyingly across a table script endlessly with dodging dollar signs.

[Tanniker Smith]

I've known people who have gotten jobs through Craigslist, so there's something to it.

[Tribune7]

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